A 23-year-old man was shot to death in a Highland apartment complex Wednesday night, authorities said.

Luis Miguel Mendoza, of San Bernardino, was visiting an acquaintance in the 26000 block of Base Line Street when he was shot in the threshold of a door about 6:45 p.m., said sheriff’s homicide Sgt. Frank Montanez.

Sheriff’s detectives served two search warrants in Highland and San Bernardino on Thursday but have not made an arrest.

While serving a warrant on Base Line Thursday morning, San Bernardino police arrived simultaneously, looking for a parolee wanted for armed robbery.

After a brief standoff with SWAT, police detained two men and a woman. They are not believed to be involved with the shooting.

Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call sheriff’s Detective Ryan Ford or Montanez at (909) 387-3589.

David Loustaunau’s sentence for killing a man that his ex-girlfriend dated in 1988 was doled out Thursday: 17 years to life in prison.

In September, a jury convicted the 40-year-old Barstow man of second degree murder for fatally shooting Leroy Stracner inside the victim’s house on Oct. 19, 1988.

Authorities say Loustaunau was lying in wait for Stracner and attacked him when the victim returned from a Del Taco run. He then dragged Stracner’s body into a back bedroom and put duct tape over his nose and mouth.

Loustaunau did not report the death for at least nine hours, then told sheriff’s detectives that he acted in self-defense when Stracner came at him with a gun. The feud centered around Stracner’s girlfriend, Tina Simmons, who began dating Loustaunau six months after the slaying.

Sherry Stracner, the victim’s daughter, said she misses her dad every day and is thankful that the county’s cold case team did not give up, even decades after the murder.

“I’ve been waiting for this day for so long,” she said, adding that she wishes Loustaunau’s sentence was longer but she’ll take what she can get.

Banning police on Wednesday arrested four teens accused of tagging the Banning Skate Park last month.

More than $450 in damage was found at the North San Gorgonio Avenue park Nov. 27. Officers stopped a group of boys nearby, who ranged in age from 12 to 16, and took their information.

Police said the boys broke a chain link fence around the park and spraypainted graffiti throughout the park.

The teens were booked into Juvenile Hall on suspicion of felony vandalism.

Police said the same boys may also be responsible for other tagging incidents in the city, including the Fox Theater, which was hit Nov. 25, and the Haven Art Center, which was vandalized on Wednesday.

Anyone with information on these taggings are asked to call Sgt. Alex Diaz at (951) 922-3170.

A man who was convicted in the slaying of Mynisha Crenshaw was ordered by a Superior Court judge to be held over for trial on charges in connection with a recent burglary at a Redlands apartment complex.

After listening to testimony at a hearing Wednesday, Judge Douglas A. Gericke ruled that sufficient evidence existed to support the latest set of burglary charges against Alonzo Jeffery Monk in San Bernardino Superior Court.

Monk, 27, was on parole at the time of the burglary. He pleaded guilty in 2006 to voluntary manslaughter as part of a plea bargain in the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Mynisha.

The judge also ordered two other men, Antonio Hollis, 28, and Michael Lloyd Anderson, 26, held over for trial in the Redlands burglary. All three defendants are facing their third strike, say prosecutors.

Redlands police responded to a burglary in progress at an apartment complex on Tennessee Street and chased the suspects through the complex and onto the roof of a nearby condominium. Officers arrested Monk and Anderson.

Hollis was shot and wounded by a police officer during a struggle. He was later released from the hospital.

Mynisha was died Nov. 13, 2005, when gang members fired weapons into her family’s San Bernardino apartment to retaliate against a rival gang. The girl and her family were unintended victims.

A man who was wounded in an exchange of gunfire that left two men dead was ordered held over for trial at a hearing Thursday in San Bernardino Superior Court.

Ardell Holmes, 43, faces one count of murder in the June shooting in the 600 block of West 16th Street. He is scheduled to return to court Dec. 7 to enter a formal plea on the charge.

Holmes and another man, Ivory Lee Houston, exchanged gunshots about 9 p.m. outside residence following an argument. Houston, 32, died at a local hospital, while Holmes was shot in the eye and survived.

An 18-year-old motorist Pascual Popoca was traveling through the area when he was struck by the gunfire and died days later.

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